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An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now-but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint-optimistic but feasible-for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply- electrify everything. He

Falsehood in Wartime is a compelling exploration into the early days of war propaganda. Arthur Ponsonby dissects government lies and manufactured truths of the First World War.

How should we "fix" digital technologies to support democracy instead of undermining it? In Designing for Democracy, Jennifer Forestal argues that accurately evaluating the democratic potential of digital spaces means studying how the built environment-a primary component of our "modern public square"-structures our activity, shapes our attitudes, and supports the kinds of relationships and behaviors democracy requires. While many scholars and practitioners are attentive to the role of design

Dirty Laundry the story of Lily Arthur and her lifelong battle for justice.

Fighting Tyranny combines two of Gene Sharp's books in a single pocket-sized volume - From Dictatorship to Democracy and The Anti-Coup.

A detailed analysis of how democracy versus sustainability will affect the political, economic and cultural conflicts over the transition to post-carbon societies.

The journey continues. In this volume, Daniel explores the African American community's relationship to money & power, politics & race, and most importantly, faith; thus demonstrating that we are, in fact, not just in one crisis but many.

Bringing civility back into our conversations and relationships one discussion at a time.

High school principal Nadav Zeimer takes readers through an in-depth evaluation of how digital technology is poised to transform education. Zeimer's compelling construct, academic capital, eliminates the need for standardized tests in favor of youth media creation.

Memoir of Pat Deluhery, former Iowa state senator and assistant for U.S. Sen. Harold Hughes from 1968 to 1974. Author covers his high school days in Davenport, Iowa; his education at Notre Dame and the London School of Economics; working on Hughes' campaign for the Senate in 1968 and his time in D.C.; his legislative accomplishments during his 24-year tenure in the Iowa Senate; and how 19th century Iowa became 20th century Iowa. Deluhery also looks at what life was like for his Irish Catholic f

Politics was once described as the art of the possible. It no longer feels that way. Today, it seems more like a battle between two feudal armies. Part of this book is aimed at showing it doesn't have to be that way. Polarization didn't start with Trump and it won't end with him unless we can somehow rescue the country from the political ditch into which it has fallen.So Another purpose of this book is to examine just how we got here and how the Democrats, with the right kind of message and an

Once, Australia was a world leader, resilient, bold, socially progressive. Then we dropped the ball. We thought like colonials. We cringed. Lately we have descended to farce. None of this has to be. We know how to live well without squabbling and without ruining the land and the planet. But don't ask the political mainstream for the answers.